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Lectures on nonlinear optics

This is the full set of twelve lectures in Nonlinear Optics
which I in the spring of 2003 gave at the Royal Institute of
Technology, Department of Laser Physics and Quantum Optics, Stockholm, Sweden.
The course was aimed towards advanced undergraduate and doctoral students and
gave 5 points, corresponding to five weeks of full-time study.
The lecture notes available below are a product from the continuous preparation
for the lectures.

Throughout the course, the convention on nonlinear susceptibilities and
degeneracy factors follows that of Butcher and Cotter's The Elements
of Nonlinear Optics (Cambridge University Press, 1990), for which a
separate errata and
summary of
conventions can be found.

The complete series of lectures

nlo2003.pdf [2.96 MB]
The entire set of lecture notes, supplementary notes and home assignments
in a single PDF document.
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nlo2003.djvu [1567 kB]
The entire set of lecture notes, supplementary notes and home assignments
in a single DejaVu document.
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nlo2003.ps [10561 kB]
The entire set of lecture notes, supplementary notes and home assignments
in a single PostScript document.
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Additional resources

errata.pdf
[107 kB]
Errata for Butcher and Cotter's The Elements of Nonlinear Optics
(Cambridge University Press, 1990).
Also available online.
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bcconven.pdf
[102 kB]
Summary of the "Butcher and Cotter convention" on nonlinear susceptibilities,
adopted from The Elements of Nonlinear Optics (Cambridge University
Press, 1990).
TeX source for the document is available here.
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